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#317 closed task (fixed)
trac site is international and should therefor use international date format
Reported by: | ThurnerRupert | Owned by: | athomas |
Priority: | high | Component: | TracHacks |
Severity: | trivial | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.9 |
could you pls use the international date format yyyy-mm-dd on the trac hack site? if you need evidence why, you might want to check on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html.
the simplest way seems to set a country which uses this format, like china, or germany by
PythonOption TracLocale de
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by athomas
Hmm, that is a good idea, but de_DE does not use iso8601 as far as I can see:
[root@swapoff:~]LANG=de_DE date +%x 17.04.2006
I also tried i18n, which according to #T1690 is supposed to work, but to no avail.
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by anonymous
Interesting, most of us get non-traditional format in ls -l, maybe that confused ThurnerRupert. For what it's worth, the Hungarian locale may come to rescue:
$ unset LC_ALL; LANG=hu_HU date +%x 2006-05-03
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by athomas
Pity about the time format :(
[athomas@o2zeopslin01:~]LANG=hu_HU date +%X 11.33.26
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by chexum
Oops [grmbl] How about moving east a bit more? :)
$ unset LC_ALL; TZ=UTC LANG=ro_RO date +%x,%X 2006-05-04,09:36:32
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by athomas
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Looking good so far :)
Thanks for your help guys.
comment:6 follow-up: ↓ 7 Changed 8 years ago by quarl
LC_TIME=ro_RO doesn't work for me, but LC_TIME=en_DK does.
$ LC_TIME=ro_RO date '+%x %X' 09.11.2006 01:41:49
$ LC_TIME=en_DK date '+%x %X' 2006-11-09 01:41:53
comment:7 in reply to: ↑ 6 Changed 8 years ago by coderanger
Replying to quarl:
LC_TIME=ro_RO doesn't work for me, but LC_TIME=en_DK does.
$ LC_TIME=ro_RO date '+%x %X' 09.11.2006 01:41:49
$ LC_TIME=en_DK date '+%x %X' 2006-11-09 01:41:53
Please take this up on http://trac.edgewall.org.


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Recommenders have been around since at least 1992. Today we see different flavours of recommenders, deployed across different verticals:
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*In a typical recommender system people provide recommendations as inputs, which the system then aggregates and directs to appropriate recipients.* -- Resnick and Varian, 1997
*Collaborative filtering simply means that people collaborate to help one another perform filtering by recording their reactions to documents they read.* -- Goldberg et al, 1992
*In its most common formulation, the recommendation problem is reduced to the problem of estimating ratings for the items that have not been seen by a user. Intuitively, this estimation is usually based on the ratings given by this user to other items and on some other information [...] Once we can estimate ratings for the yet unrated items, we can recommend to the user the item(s) with the highest estimated rating(s).* -- Adomavicius and Tuzhilin, 2005
*Driven by computer algorithms, recommenders help consumers by selecting products they will probably like and might buy based on their browsing, searches, purchases, and preferences.* -- Konstan and Riedl, 2012
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| user_id, movie_id | m_1 | m_2 | m_3 | m_4 | m_5 |
| u_1 | ? | ? | 4 | ? | 1 |
| u_2 | 3 | ? | ? | 2 | 2 |
| u_3 | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| u_4 | ? | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| u_5 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| u_6 | 2 | ? | 2 | ? | ? |
| u_7 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| u_8 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ? | ? |
| u_9 | ? | ? | ? | ? | 2 |
Given a partially filled matrix of ratings ($|U|x|I|$), estimate the missing values.
Content-based techniques are limited by the amount of metadata that is available to describe an item. There are domains in which feature extraction methods are expensive or time consuming, e.g., processing multimedia data such as graphics, audio/video streams. In the context of grocery items for example, it's often the case that item information is only partial or completely missing. Examples include:
A user has to have rated a sufficient number of items before a recommender system can have a good idea of what their preferences are. In a content-based system, the aggregation function needs ratings to aggregate.
Collaborative filters rely on an item being rated by many users to compute aggregates of those ratings. Think of this as the exact counterpart of the new user problem for content-based systems.
When looking at the more general versions of content-based and collaborative systems, the success of the recommender system depends on the availability of a critical mass of user/item iteractions. We get a first glance at the data sparsity problem by quantifying the ratio of existing ratings vs $|U|x|I|$. A highly sparse matrix of interactions makes it difficult to compute similarities between users and items. As an example, for a user whose tastes are unusual compared to the rest of the population, there will not be any other users who are particularly similar, leading to poor recommendations.
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Loading of the CourseTalk database.
The CourseTalk data is spread across three files. Using the pd.read_table
method we load each file:
import pandas as pd
unames = ['user_id', 'username']
users = pd.read_table('./data/users_set.dat',
sep='|', header=None, names=unames)
rnames = ['user_id', 'course_id', 'rating']
ratings = pd.read_table('./data/ratings.dat',
sep='|', header=None, names=rnames)
mnames = ['course_id', 'title', 'avg_rating', 'workload', 'university', 'difficulty', 'provider']
courses = pd.read_table('./data/cursos.dat',
sep='|', header=None, names=mnames)
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# show how one of them looks
Using pd.merge
we get it all into one big DataFrame.
coursetalk = pd.merge(pd.merge(ratings, courses), users)
The idea of groupby is that of split-apply-combine:
To get mean course ratings grouped by the provider, we can use the pivot_table method:
mean_ratings = coursetalk.pivot_table('rating', rows='provider', aggfunc='mean')
Now let's filter down to courses that received at least 20 ratings (a completely arbitrary number); To do this, I group the data by course_id and use size() to get a Series of group sizes for each title:
ratings_by_title = coursetalk.groupby('title').size()
active_titles = ratings_by_title.index[ratings_by_title >= 20]
The index of titles receiving at least 20 ratings can then be used to select rows from mean_ratings above:
mean_ratings = coursetalk.pivot_table('rating', rows='title', aggfunc='mean')
By computing the mean rating for each course, we will order with the highest rating listed first.
To see the top courses among Coursera students, we can sort by the 'Coursera' column in descending order:
mean_ratings = coursetalk.pivot_table('rating', rows='title',cols='provider', aggfunc='mean')
Now, let's go further! How about rank the courses with the highest percentage of ratings that are 4 or higher ? % of ratings 4+
Let's start with a simple pivoting example that does not involve any aggregation. We can extract a ratings matrix as follows:
# transform the ratings frame into a ratings matrix
ratings_mtx_df = coursetalk.pivot_table(values='rating',
ratings_mtx_df.ix[ratings_mtx_df.index[:15], ratings_mtx_df.columns[:15]]
Let's extract only the rating that are 4 or higher.
ratings_gte_4 = ratings_mtx_df[ratings_mtx_df>=4.0]
# with an integer axis index only label-based indexing is possible
ratings_gte_4.ix[ratings_gte_4.index[:15], ratings_gte_4.columns[:15]]
Now picking the number of total ratings for each course and the count of ratings 4+ , we can merge them into one DataFrame.
ratings_gte_4_pd = pd.DataFrame({'total': ratings_mtx_df.count(), 'gte_4': ratings_gte_4.count()})
ratings_gte_4_pd['gte_4_ratio'] = (ratings_gte_4_pd['gte_4'] * 1.0)/ ratings_gte_4_pd.total
ranking = [(title,total,gte_4, score) for title, total, gte_4, score in ratings_gte_4_pd.itertuples()]
for title, total, gte_4, score in sorted(ranking, key=lambda x: (x[3], x[2], x[1]) , reverse=True)[:10]:
print title, total, gte_4, score
Let's now go easy. Let's count the number of ratings for each course, and order with the most number of ratings.
ratings_by_title = coursetalk.groupby('title').size()
Considering this information we can sort by the most rated ones with highest percentage of 4+ ratings.
for title, total, gte_4, score in sorted(ranking, key=lambda x: (x[2], x[3], x[1]) , reverse=True)[:10]:
print title, total, gte_4, score
Finally using the formula above that we learned, let's find out what the courses that most often occur wit the popular MOOC An introduction to Interactive Programming with Python by using the method "x + y/ x" . For each course, calculate the percentage of Programming with python raters who also rated that course. Order with the highest percentage first, and voilá we have the top 5 moocs.
course_users = coursetalk.pivot_table('rating', rows='title', cols='user_id')
course_users.ix[course_users.index[:15], course_users.columns[:15]]
First, let's get only the users that rated the course An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
ratings_by_course = coursetalk[coursetalk.title == 'An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python']
ratings_by_course.set_index('user_id', inplace=True)
Now, for all other courses let's filter out only the ratings from users that rated the Python course.
their_ids = ratings_by_course.index
their_ratings = course_users[their_ids]
course_users[their_ids].ix[course_users[their_ids].index[:15], course_users[their_ids].columns[:15]]
By applying the division: number of ratings who rated Python Course and the given course / total of ratings who rated the Python Course we have our percentage.
course_count = their_ratings.ix['An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python'].count()
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TUESDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severe sepsis, drotrecogin alfa (activated) is associated with significant reductions in hospital mortality, according to a study published online July 17 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Andre C. Kalil, M.D., from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and Steven P. LaRosa, M.D., from Beverly Hospital in Massachusetts, conducted a meta-analysis and metaregression to assess the effectiveness and safety of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in the past 10 years. Results were compared with those from the original Recombinant Human Activated Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis (PROWESS) trial.
In the effectiveness analyses, the researchers included nine controlled trials (41,401 patients) and 16 single-group studies (5,822 patients); 20 studies involving 8,245 patients were included in the safety analyses. There was an 18 percent reduction in hospital mortality with drotrecogin alfa (activated) versus controls (relative risk [RR], 0.822; I² = 40 percent), which was similar to that noted in the original PROWESS study (RR, 0.851) and smaller than that of patients with high disease severity in PROWESS (RR, 0.708). In propensity-adjusted studies, the mortality reduction was similar with lower heterogeneity (RR, 0.844; I² = 18 percent). Addition of the PROWESS-SHOCK results did not alter these findings. For single-group studies, the hospital mortality rate was 41 percent, significantly higher than that observed in PROWESS (31 percent). The rate of serious bleeding was 5.6 percent, significantly higher than the 3.5 percent observed in PROWESS and similar to that of patients with high disease severity in PROWESS (P = 0.073).
"Real-life use of drotrecogin alfa (activated) was associated with significant reduction in hospital mortality and increased rates of bleeding in patients with severe sepsis," the authors write.
Both authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Thursday, September 17. 2009
Do you have a Notebook running Linux?
Do you frequently use it in different network environments with different proxy configurations?
Are you sick of frequently reconfiguring all the applications that have their own proxy settings like the web browser, the Java IDE, the desktop and the applications that uses its settings, the other desktop environment that uses other settings... and so on?
If your answer to these questions is yes, yes and yes then read on. The solution I present here allows you to configure proxy settings in any of your applications just once and will even change the proxy settings automatically as soon as you connect your laptop to a network.
The whole magic behind this solution is to run a lightweight proxy on your notebook computer. This proxy will be dynamically configured according to a pattern that matches an IP address pattern after the DHCP server has assigned it. And all your applications are configured to use your local running proxy. Voila... that's the simple idea behind it.
So here is how I set this up. Here are the prerequisites that you need to resemble my setup:
- Kubuntu Intrepid or Jaunty
- knetworkmanager or wicd
- Tinyproxy
- Optionally KDE with kdialog to display the update notifications
Depending on your environment you might want to adapt the script and configuration steps (I am curious about your setup, so please post a comment in case you believe that you found a better solution).
Installing a Local Proxy Server
So I have chosen to use Tinyproxy as local proxy server on my notebook. First of all it's very simple to configure, but even more important is its very low footprint. After all the proxy does not have to do serious work. It just has to forward HTTP, HTTPS and FTP requests to the current networks proxy or directly to the contacted server in case the network does not provide a network.
On Ubuntu systems the installation is a one liner as always:
apt-get install tinyproxy
After Tinyproxy has been installed you might want to change some of its basic settings like the port it is listening on. Just have a look at the configuration file at /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf. It's well documented at pretty easy to configure. For now don't configure an upstream proxy. This will be done by the configuration script.
Configuration Script
For tinyproxy I have written a small shell script that checks the assigned IP address and configures tinyproxy accordingly.
- Download the script: roadwarriorsproxy.bz2
- Extract it: bunzip roadwarriorsproxy.bz2
- If necessary make it executable: chmod +x roadwarriorsproxy
- As the script must be run as root, it's very advisable to make root the owner of the script. Otherwise others might be able to change the script and do bad things: chown root:root roadwarriorsproxy
- Open the script in an editor and change the settings.
- The script requires ethtool, so install it: apt-get install ethtool
The configuration is pretty simple and is already documented. In the 'General Settings' section you might want to change the NETWORK_DEVICE_LIST variable. Your laptop might use wlan0 fuer it's WLAN interface. Mine is using eth1 for WLAN. Run ifconfig, if you are unsure.
If you are using KDE, you might want to get a notification, which proxy has been set. Then set ANNOUNCE_UPDATE to yes and ANNOUNCE_USER to your user name (the last option allows to display the notification on your desktop, as the script must be run as root). You are also able to change various paths to match your environment, but the preconfigured paths should be OK in case you are using Ubuntu.
In the next section you have to configure the proxies. The script already contains some examples and it is also well documented so I shouldn't need to explain how to set up a proxy configuration here. You can configure up to 254 proxies for different networks. I guess that should be enough. The configuration with the index 255 is reserved for fallback in case none of the previous IP patterns are matching. In general you will want to have no proxy in this case.
### Proxy configuration ######################################################## # The configuration of the proxies is organized in 'sets' that are identified # through the same index number. Each set can have the following parameters: # # config_name[<index>]="" # [Required] The name of the configuration: An desired string that identifies # the configuration. # # ip_pattern[<index>]=' ' # [Required] A pattern that matches the IP address for which the configuration # shall be activated. Example: # ip_pattern[0]='192\.168\.\.*' # Note the single quotes! # # use_proxy[<index>]= # [Required] Shall a proxy for this configuration be enabled or not? # # proxy[<index>]= : # [Optional] If a proxy should be used specify the name and the port using this # setting. Example: # proxy[0]="externalproxy.example.com:8080" # # no_proxy_urls[<index>]= # [Optional] Space separated list of URLs for which the proxy shall be bipassed. # Example: # no_proxy_urls="localhost .internal.example.com 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0" # For more information consult the tinyproxy configuration documentation. # Home config_name[0]="Home" ip_pattern[0]='192\.168\..*' use_proxy[0]=no # Office config_name[1]="Office" ip_pattern[1]='123\.234\..*' use_proxy[1]=yes proxy[1]="proxy.example.com:8080" no_proxy_urls[1]="localhost 127.0.0.1 .intranet.example.com" # Default fallback configuration is #255 config_name[255]="Default" ip_pattern[255]='.*' # Do not change the pattern for the fallback configuration use_proxy[255]=no
Now it's the time for a first test run. Execute sudo roadwarriorsproxy. This should reconfigure Tinyproxy and restart it and on the shell you should get an output like '[Info] The proxy cofiguration '<Name>' has been activated'. If that is not the case, please re-check your settings in the script. Note that sudo must not ask any questions. It must be configured to run without asking for a password.
Next open up a browser and configure the local Tinyproxy as proxy server. By default the proxy server is listening on the port 8080, so enter localhost for the proxy host and 8080 as port. On the left you can see my proxy settings. Note that I have changed the default port of Tinyproxy to 8888. When you open up an URL the browser should be able to load it.
If that does not work, check if at least one tinyproxy process is running. If not the most likely case is that the configuration of Tinyproxy is wrong. Check /var/log/tinyproxy for more information or try to run tinyproxy directly and see its output.
Running the Script Automatically
When you have the script running and your browser is able to use the proxy to browse the web there is just one thing that's left to automate it completely. Launch it as soon as your computer acquires a network connection. For that you can either use knetworkmanager or Wicd.
KNetworkmanager is the network manager for KDE that sits in the system tray. In case you have it as a Plasmoid you are using the newer Plasma version that comes with Jaunty. However this is not able to configure notifications for events. But you still can install knetworkmanager with apt-get and use it anyway.
So when you have knetworkmanager running, do a right click on the tray icon and select Configure Notifications. This will open up the window you can see on the right. Select the event NetworkManager is now connected, click on Advanced and check Execute a programm. Enter sudo followed by the path to where you have installed the script (have I already mentioned that sudo must be able to run without any prompt?). From now on, the proxy should be configured every time you connect to the network.
In case you don't want to use KNetworkmanager because you are using Gnome or KNetworkmanager does not work for you (that's the case for my new notebook, where KNetworkmanager simply refuses to start a WiFi connection) you may want to use Wicd. In Wicd it's possible to specify different scripts for to be run before a connection was acquired (Pre-connection) after a connection was established (Post-connection) or when a link is lost (Disconnection). Simply expand the network for which you want to specify the script, click on the Scripts button and enter the path to the Road Warriors Proxy script in the Post-connection Script field. Note that you do not have to run the script with sudo in this case as the script is executed by the wicd daemon, which runs as root. This may be another pro argument for favoring Wicd over KNetworkmanager as you do not have to set up sudo to run without entering a password. You will have to repeat this for all the networks you are using, so each WLAN connection and the LAN connection.
There may be just one problem left. In case you are connected to a LAN at boot time, you'll get an IP address, before the Network Manager starts and it will not trigger this event. To circumvent this, I have also created an Application Link in ~/.kde/Autostart that runs the same command as knetworkmanager, so that the proxy is updated on each login in addition to the event triggered by KNetworkmanager.
And as last action you just have to reconfigure all other applications to use the local proxy. I have this setup running for some months now and it works without any problems. I never had to change my proxy since then in any application - a task which I performed several times in various applications each day previously.
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The work required to bump i915 classic to 2.1 was minimal - probably an hour or so - and makes the driver a lot more useful. At this point, we're not really spending any resources on that generation of hardware at all. In fact, these two patches were the only significant work done on the classic driver since March 2012 (yes, last year). So it's not really a refusal of Gallium in this case, just that we think our resources are better spent on newer hardware.
For our new hardware, you're right - we are currently refusing to use Gallium. That's a different situation, though.
I guess it comes down to what would switching to Gallium actually do for them. There are advantages to maintaining your own code base as well rather then relying on more factions to support your product. Switching just for the sake of switching with no real clear advantage doesn't seem like a smart or cost effective move.
Using LLVM hasn't yielded any real improvements in performance, openCL support on an igp is a bit of a joke, no one is going to do any real serious openCL work on a IGP. None of the listed reasons are compelling enough for them to change. It doesn't make them any more money, the advantages are very small and don't overly improve performance. That is a lot of effort for next to no return on investment.
Pretty much any entry level video card can pummel the igp's in computing performance and nobody is going to use them for any serious gpgpu purposes.
Please note that the intel IGP's don't even have any DP capabilities. The DP results there are actually from the CPU doing the crunching on the IB processors.
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Boltong, A*, Aranda, S*, Keast, R, Wynne, R*, Francis, P A*, Chirgwin, J* and Gough, K* (2014) A prospective cohort study of the effects of adjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy on taste function, food liking, appetite and associated nutritional outcomes, PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1-9, Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA [C1]
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Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP): Relationship among socioeconomic and general health factors and dental status among elderly adults in Pomerania
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Title | Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP): Relationship among socioeconomic and general health factors and dental status among elderly adults in Pomerania |
Author | Mack, Florian; Mundt, Torsten; Mojon, Philippe; Budtz-Jørgensen, Ejvind; Schwahn, Christian; Bernhardt, Olaf; Gesch, Dietmar; John, Ulrich; Kocher, Thomas; Biffar, Reiner |
Journal Name | Quintessence International |
Year Published | 2003 |
Place of publication | Germany |
Publisher | Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH |
Abstract | Department of Prosthodontics and Dental Materials, Center of Oral Health, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. firstname.lastname@example.com OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate associations among the dental status, socioeconomic factors, and general health of 1,877 subjects between the ages of 55 and 79. METHOD AND MATERIALS: Socioeconomic information (age, sex, education level) and questions on smoking and alcohol abuse were taken from an interview; income and medical information (number of diseases) were taken from a self-administered questionnaire; and HbA1C and CDT (diabetes and alcoholism markers) were taken from blood analyses. RESULTS: Of the subjects, 73% had a low education level, and 27% of the subjects had a monthly income of < 1,000 Euro and 13% of > 2,000 Euro. Twenty-six percent of the subjects were edentulous, and 29% had 20 or more teeth. The odds ratio of edentulism increased to 9.0 (95% confidence interval = 7.0-11.5) at the ages of 75 to 79 years compared to ages 55 to 79. Logistic regression analyses showed that edentulism was significantly associated with age, low education level, low income, smoking, and alcohol abuse. However, the retention of more than 20 teeth was associated with age. CONCLUSIONS: Age, low income, low education level, smoking, and alcohol abuse seemed to be risk markers for edentulism; whereas, the number of diseases, diabetes, and gender were not. |
Peer Reviewed | Yes |
Published | Yes |
Publisher URI | http://www.quintpub.com/journals/qi/gp.php?journal_name=QI&name_abbr=QI |
Volume | 34 |
Issue Number | 10 |
Page from | 772 |
Page to | 778 |
Date Accessioned | 2007-07-02 |
Language | en_AU |
Faculty | Griffith Health Faculty |
Subject | PRE2009-Dentistry |
URI | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/27461 |
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Really solid plaid shirt by the new levi's boutique brand.
Nice spring plaid shirt. Good warm colors for that warmer weather.
Awesome spring plaid shirt. Perfect for the slightly formal look to go party in.
I dont know if im seeing this correctly..but its listed at $39!
I LOVE this plaid pattern. Colors are perfect and its short sleeved for the warmer weather.
I LOVE this plaid pattern. Colors are perfect.
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Same small gingham shirt in a short sleeve variant
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So I almost have my Stretch done and my best friend says "Bro I need one of those" and here we go again!! With a quick search on CL we found a nice candidate for $40.00 twenty minutes later we are ready to start cutting 8) My friend loves his dirty devil shirt so that's how I came up with the name..... Here is the victim 15 minutes later And now the fun begins The two pieces of conduit are not staying I am trying to find a piece of 2.5 inch oval tube
Re: Dirty Devil Thats a great way to get a simple stretch done fast. Nice work. Waiting to see the finished product.
Re: Dirty Devil Hey thanks guys.... This bike is living up to it's name I had to stop working on it last week due to a smashed finger and today I was doing some welding and grinding on it and the grinder slipped and cut my index finger to the bone!! I cant wait for the cursed bike to be done and in someone else's garage!!!
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" the frame looks awesome! would look cool with a raked lowrider fork on it or something to kinda throw the front wheel out a little more ya know? cant wait to see it finished!! Easy E
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Wow, good ideas on this one. I just picked up the same frame with 20" ww's, a 20" springer fork and banana seat in a trade and was wondering what to do with it. Let me know if you wanna sell or trade that chain guard, mine didn't come with one and will probably just build it up first before deciding what to do.
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Thanks Wimpy I got a little work done today cant grind or weld,but I was able to do a little paint and body work. With my one hand. Easy I was thinking the same thing But my Bro is not crazy about the idea....I hope he changes his mind tho. Thanks Monster I'll let you know about that chain guard as soon as I figure out what im doing with it.
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Looks great, I can picture it with some thick bricks on it the way it sits without extra rake.
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" They're 24 x 3, really good quality tire BTW. Loving this build, you've got a lucky friend... :mrgreen: Keep up the awesome work, just watch your fingers! Cheers, Dr. T
2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Thanks Dr. T.... I'm running 26's so I guess the thick bricks are out. And as far as my friend goes, he was there for me when no one else was so i think it's a pretty fair trade off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Thank Dio I am stoked on The lines of this build. A little update..I'm still working with one hand. :mrgreen: 8)
2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Thanks jackdaw.... I really love the way it came out. I gave up trying to work with the splint on my hand so off it came. I mocked up dirty devil for a little shakedown..... Nice and straight a little wobble in the front nothing to serious. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" that turned out pretty rad dude! still think the front end needs something. apes maybe? to be raked out or something... maybe some triple trees? just my opinion... but regardless, looks awesome. you got me wanting to chop things up in my garage now!!! any ideas for paint yet?! Easy E
Re: 2nd Stretch "The Dirty Devil" Thanks Easy I think he might go for the springer now....Flat metallic red like the wheels and the stem with black bars and black crank and sprocket. Get to cutting!!! Bigdaddy


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After seeing the crazy M5 driver, it reminded me of a video I saw a long time ago with a M5 and RS4 doing some fast driving on a freeway. They are doing some very tight lane changes.
It is at least pre-2001 and was one of the first videos that I remember coming around via email: M5 v RS4
It's only Russians at risk so who cares.
JL said...It's only Russians at risk so who cares.
JL said...
Maybe so, but some of those lane chanes are very precise.
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My daughter Holley had stomach problems from the time she was born. Difficulty with digestion, colon problems, constipation and diarrhea, and much more. She is 11 years old today. For the past 2 years she has missed a great deal of school and has had "chronic mononucleosis." She has had numerous growth plate bone fractures as well as cavities in her teeth.
Holley had her gallbladder removed last summer at age 10. She was been taken to one of the best hospitals in our area, and had every kind of diagnostic test for stomach, intestine and colon. Her colonoscopy and stomach showed gastritis and IBS. Her blood work was normal. She was treated with medication that caused weight gain and stomach irritation. We changed it to other meds, and her chronic diarrhea episodes subsided enough for her to try to go back to school after missing over 3 months straight.
I finally decided to see what difference it would make to go on a gluten-free diet, so we went to a nutritionist. My husband and I saw a difference in a matter of days. My daughter is starting to act like other kids her age! She has more energy, dances around the house, is playing basketball, and exhibits better emotional behavior. We are so pleased.
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Microstructural evolution in commercial purity aluminum during high-pressure torsion
Zhilyaev, A.P., Oh-ishi, K., Langdon, T.G. and McNelley, T.R. (2005) Microstructural evolution in commercial purity aluminum during high-pressure torsion. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 410-411, 277-280. (doi:10.1016/j.msea.2005.08.044).
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An investigation was conducted to evaluate the microstructural evolution occurring in disks of commercial purity aluminum processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) under constrained conditions. Microhardness measurements were taken to assess the variation in hardness across the diameters of disks subjected to different imposed strains and the microstructures were observed at the edges and in the centers of the disks using transmission electron microscopy. The results show the microhardness is lower and there is less grain refinement in the central regions of the disks in the initial stages of torsional straining but the microstructures become reasonably homogeneous across the disks at high imposed strains.
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The man who was found dead Sunday night in the Stono River was identified this morning as boating enthusiast and pediatrician Charles "Chuck" Kisabeth, who owned a home near the river in West Ashley.
Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten called Kisabeth's drowning death a tragedy for a community in which he was widely respected for his work as a partner at Parkwood Pediatric Group.
Kisabeth, 61, was married to Anne Kisabeth and had four children, according to Parkwoods website. He earned an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and studied medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
I enjoy boating, gardening, photography and spending time with my family, he wrote on the website.
Multiple agencies responded to the Stono River near Wappoo Road about 7:30 p.m. after a man reported that he and his father-in-law fell from a boat about 45 minutes earlier, Department of Natural Resources Lt. Robert McCullough said.
The man told authorities he swam to shore and called authorities after he couldn't find his father-in-law.
Property records show that Kisabeth owned a home on nearby Capri Drive.
Searchers responded by boat and helicopter. They recovered the body between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., McCullough said. They also found the capsized boat, he said.
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The MirrOlure® MirrOmullet® Saltwater Walker is designed to resemble one of the most popular forages for coastal game. Its swimming action mimics a wounded mullet and offers a subtle presentation that is ideal for fishing in calm shallow water. Other fish-attracting features include luminescent inserts for flash, 3-D eyes, and a natural mullet profile that work together to entice saltwater predators for striking results.
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BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — LocatePLUS Holdings Corporation (OTC Pink Sheets: LPHC), a prominent supplier of investigative solutions including data-subject location characteristics and personal contact information announced today the completion of a certification process with Pen-Link, Ltd., a leading supplier to law enforcement of equipment and software for electronic communication surveillance and analysis.
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LocatePLUS holds current and historical data on 98% of the adult population of the United States. The data is cross-referenced and rapidly searchable via the company's proprietary methods and can provide a wide range of location characteristics and personal contact information even with incomplete or partial inquiry information. Geoffrey Lee, President and CEO of LocatePLUS observed: "Sometimes the most difficult or significant criminal investigations are resolved successfully because of the smallest lead or piece of information. With real time access to the LocatePLUS database, even partial or incomplete information will be immediately useful by yielding investigative avenues such as names, addresses, cell or telephone numbers, prior residences and associations, email addresses, motor vehicle records, and driver's license records all formatted to reveal links to additional relevant investigative data."
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LocatePLUS is an industry-leading provider of investigative solutions currently used in homeland security, anti-terrorism, and crime fighting initiatives. The Company acquires and synthesizes public information in a cross-referenced, searchable database integrated in a proprietary manner that provides rapid and efficient access via Internet and other media to comprehensive personal and location characteristics on data subjects even when inquiry information is partial or incomplete.
The Company estimates that it holds current and historical data on nearly 98% of the adult population of the United States as recorded in the 2000 census. This information can include names, addresses, telephone numbers, cell phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, prior residences, and, in certain circumstances, real estate holdings, recorded bankruptcies, liens, judgments, driver's license data, motor vehicle records, and more from multiple sources formatted to reveal links to related data useful in investigations. The information is maintained in one of the largest and most comprehensive XML data sources of its kind.
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Brace yourself guys, EMDs are going to take another hit.
Brace yourself guys, EMDs are going to take another hit.
SO, sadddd
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This just sucks, im sure even white quality websites will get hurt
Funny, if it's low quality why would it be ranking to begin with?
Sounds like Cunts is admitting the algo sucks...
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This is a tad frightening given what most of my websites are. Though I'm curious how it will identify "low quality." My sites aren't low quality, however they are EMDs
Farewell, cars.com
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If I have learned something from Google's previous algorithm changes, not even high quality unique content is enough when the algo decides that your site is of low quality. "Innocent" people always get hurt because the Big G doesn't mind a few casualties if they manage to drop some spammy sites from the search results.
pokerjk (09-29-2012)
"low quality" is the keyword here (pun intended).
plus it only affects 0.6% of US results.
to put that in perspective: if you rounded up 1,000,000 of us with EMDs, only 6,000 people would be affected.
Well, thats easy just cut the weight they give to the domain and let the other quality factors stand on its own.
I left over 100 websites go, for the simple fact I have found I can do way better with putting the same content/products on 1 website and leveraging OTHER traffic then what Google wants to give you or take away at a whim, or a algo change goofup.
mrtwister_65 (09-29-2012)
I'm quite glad about this actually. I see loads of shitty results like this and it is damn well annoying.
I have an emd, just like "cars.com" - not as cool, but still a type-in domain - for the purpose of this post, think "yatch.com" (it's kinda related). I've never worried about google even ranking it (but it's been pretty much at the 1st-2nd position forever). I got it about 10 years ago, and it has a 100% related website + content. So people want a yatch (again, not really, but close ), they type my domain + .com. Couldn't care less if googla or the fat guy try to fix whatever is not broken, people will still type my domain, and I believe some of the EMDs are such an obvious choice that many people will still type them just to see if there's a related website.
"I once worked as a stand-in for Matt Cutts. All I had to do was just stand there with a fake beard over my girly face and look really fat and clueless."
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Yeah they probably will skip the quality check part anyway and just punish any EMD with less than 2500 words of content. They are just targetting mns AGAIN!
45% of the money I spend on creating a mns goes to content and I'll be furious if I see any of my sites go down the drain just because some fuckhead wants to "improve the internet user's experience with Google".
I swear Google is the biggest hypocrite ever to embrace the internet, what kind of slogan is "Don't Be Evil" anyway???
ibmethatswhoib (09-29-2012)
One of the comments on his tweet that I loved.
"@mattcutts Do you ever go out and enjoy life? Or do you literally live for Google? Go and have a beer and drop the whole Google thing"
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kefoo (09-30-2012)
It would be wise of Google to replace Cutts' team with someone who has better ideas.
Because for some reason, once they started playing with my user experience, it continuously goes down.
By the way I'm not against giving less weight to poor EMD, without that extra weight it will be much easier to rank your website. However, I don't think that Cutts qualifies for the job.
Having an EMD isn't a sign of low quality (even if there are tons of low quality sites with EMDs) so this is yet again another move by Google that could punish plenty of reputable websites. Hopefully EMDs with GOOD quality content will not be punished just like good quality affiliate sites shouldn't be.
Translation: "We at Google are completely in over our heads. We have no idea how to keep "spam" off the front page, and this is us grasping at straws."
davids355 (09-29-2012), DrJekyll (09-29-2012), ibmethatswhoib (09-29-2012), nativepro (09-29-2012)
I hope the #1 site in my niche gets hit. Low quality site with $2 articles while my high quality site struggling at #5.
If they had their beak in domain registration you know they would be singing a different tune.
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bertbaby (09-29-2012)
New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. Unrelated to Panda/Penguin.
Already checked my niche and my competitor's who was ranking#1 with his low quality EMD got kicked from page 1
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another smoke signal take no notice
I wonder how do they rate user experience? They want to improve user experience but in reality, it is their perception of user experience. Do they receive complaints of certain types of website or what? I just don't understand their logical reasoning for having such frequent algo updates. It's like they hang around on SEO/IM forums and see what everyone is doing to earn a living and then they go and target it. Crazyy
Pikachoo (09-29-2012)
They don't. It may have been the case years ago when the serps were packed with shit, but the algo changes of the past couple of years are simply about money. Google is no longer the innovative start-up that they like to brand themselves as. They are a giant corporation with a stranglehold on search, and it's their job to squeeze out every last dime.
drywallrob (09-29-2012), karupoiss (09-29-2012), wezzy (09-29-2012)
Anyone with 30+ emd's noticing any changes? If so what setup had every domain that got hit (I'm referring to article numbers and type of backlinks)?
To me it depends on your traffic. A 10 page semi-authority site is for "product research". Pros, cons, features and what not are all used to pre-sell. But what if the visitor already knows it's what they want and are just looking for the best price or some discount....they could care less about all that well written content.
Those are the people I try to build my sites for now. I'm not in the pre-sell business. I find it a waste of time to put effort & resources into a site just for the google numbnuts to get a wild hair push my shit in oblivion!
You could see it coming a mile away! Which is why I think I only ever had 3 EMD sites ever. Think about it, it gets shared on one forum then on every freakin im forum on the planet! You think they aren't gonna notice? Things like that always go through the same pattern -
1. Initial Implementation - 1st in makes the most money!
2. Saturation - Everyone else starts doing it.
3. It gets killed or roadblocks put in place - ie: Panda, Penguin, this next update.
4. Finally lose all effectiveness (unless you really know what your doing ).
As a matter of fact I don't build sites that rely on google for traffic anymore, except for the holiday season. They lay dormant most of the year, getting just a trickle of traffic then they come alive all on their own. I don't care about or even look at their rankings nor do I build backlinks to most of them, if i do it's maybe 1 or 2 at most but, they always get found and they are set and forget. Just the way I like 'em
You just have to be creative and NOT FOLLOW THE HERD!
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Google will not rest until you have to pay through one of their companies to buy food. And if you are misrepresenting your desire to eat, or if you have too many pimples above the fold, you will be penalized with smaller portions or sent to the back of Google's soup line.
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Instead of doing all this kind of stuff why don't they just penalize websites that have misspelled words, improper placement of comas you know real things that make the internet better as a whole.
I stand corrected but their domain registration efforts appeared to be based on their partnership with Godaddy. Anyway in researching this I found this nugget that I must have missed on BHW:
"However, another noteworthy aspect of this update is that Google has partnered with GoDaddy to even cross check the domain life (registration and the expiry date of domain), and apparently Google believes that the domains that are registered for 2-3years are legitimate, while those which are just registered for 1 year may be intended to create door-way pages."
Do you have some sources? I'd love a reason to move domains away from Godaddy.
Since Google is an accredited registrar (ID #895 as noted here), they do not need to partner with Godaddy to pull registry data.
Here's a reason.


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RANCHO PALOS VERDES CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2004 FRED HESSE COMMUNITY PARK, 29301 HAWTHORNE BOULEVARD _____________________________________________________________________ 6:00 P.M. CLOSED SESSION. See attached Brown Act Checklist for details. 6:15 P.M. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TRAINING FOR CITY COUNCIL CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: FLAG SALUTE: APPROVAL OF AGENDA: REGULAR BUSINESS: 1. Emergency Preparedness Training for City Council. (Petru) Recommendation: Receive and file. ADJOURNMENT: Adjourn at 7:00 P.M. CLOSED SESSION AGENDA CHECKLIST Based on Government Code Section 54954.5 (All Statutory References are to California Government Code Sections) Conference With Real Property Negotiator G.C. 54956.8 Property: 30678 Palos Verdes Drive East Negotiating Parties: City Manager Les Evans and City Attorney Carol Lynch. Under Negotiation: Potential sale of real property; price and terms of sale. American with Disabilities Act: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, if you require a disability-related modification or accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting, including auxiliary aids or services, please call the City Clerks Office at 310 544-5208 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting. NOTE: Staff reports are available for inspection at City Hall, 30940 Hawthorne Boulevard during regular business hours, 7:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Monday Thursday and 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. on Friday. The agenda and staff reports can also be viewed at Hesse Community Park, 29301 Hawthorne Boulevard during regular business hours: Monday Friday from 9:00 A.M. until dusk; Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 A.M. until dusk. You can also view the agenda and staff reports at the Citys website www.palosverdes.com/RPV . |


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Santa Ynez Peak is on the far right of picture. This picture shows how close it is to the Santa Barbara coastline, less then 5 air miles. This picture was taken from Ellwood. | Peakbagging in Santa Barbara County (Album) theronmoon's Image Gallery Santa Ynez Mountains (Area/Range) Santa Ynez Peak (Mountain/Rock) Ocean shots (Album) California Coastal Peaks (List) Image Data
Image ID: 274355 Hits: 3438 Lat/Lon: 34.52700°N / 119.97760°E Object Title: Santa Ynez Peak |